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If you could live the life of a single character for one day, whose story would you want?

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If I could live a character’s life for one day, I’d definitely want to be Menolly from DRAGONSONG (by Anne McCaffrey). I realize I’m probably dating myself with this choice, BUT…I can’t help it. My first world-love is still my biggest. The world from DRAGONSONG has everything I’d like to see: Dragons? Check. Unique culture? Check. Danger? Check. Scale and depth? Yep. Handsome guys? OH YEAH. Yes, I realize now that Menolly’s character is something of a Mary Sue, but as a lonely, self-conscious, painfully shy 13-year-old, I needed that kind of character to look up to.

-Susan Dennard

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I’d want to be Sabriel (from SABRIEL by Garth Nix) for a day! Kick-ass necromancy skills, a talking/sarcastic cat, a super-cool sword, and a killer outfit…? Totally my thing. I’d rock that bandolier of bells so hardcore.

-Sarah Maas

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Wow, what a difficult question. There’s so many worlds I’d love to get into. Is Hermione a cop-out? 😉 I want to transfigure something, just once! And now for my real answer… definitely Thursday Next, of the Thursday Next series. A literary detective hopping from book to book to solve mysteries in a world where time travel exists and you can literally get inside the pages of your favorite novel? Sign me up for Spec-Ops 27; then I could visit ALL the worlds!

-Savannah Foley

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I’d want to be Lyra Belacqua from HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy by Philip Pullman for a day. I mean, who DOESN’T want a daemon companion? Plus, Pantalaimon is amazing. And cool. He’s the only daemon I’d ever want. And let’s not forget that I’d live in a sweet alternate universe – one way more exciting than our plain old one! Witches, talking polar bears (one I could RIDE on, which is just icing on the cake) and a nickname like Silvertongue? YES PLEASE!

13 Responses to “QOTW: Living as a Character”

Tonks. Hands down. Tonks from Harry Potter is possibly the most KICK ASS heroine ever and has the added benefit of being an Auror. Sure, she dies and falls in love with a werewolf but Lupin rocks socks and death, meh.

I think I’d like to be Meghan from The Iron Fey series. Who doesn’t want super fairy powers, an amazingly hot ice princess (hah no pun intended) and a talking snarky cat side kick? Yeah, that would suit me just fine.

Probably Katniss. I wouldn’t last a day in The Hunger Games, but I would feel like such a badass for all of the five minutes it would take for someone to find and kill me.
If I actually wanted to, you know, stay alive, I would go for Gemma Doyle. Living in a different time period would be awesome, plus I love the magic system of her world, and I’ve always had a thing for Kartik 😉